About the Authors
- About the Authors
David Atkinson is currently an honorary research fellow of the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK. He is a member of a team working on the James Madison Carpenter Collection Project, which seeks to publish the collection in a critical edition and to present the digital images and sound files of the collection materials as a freely accessible online resource (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/carpenter/elements/). He recently published The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (Atkinson 2014).
Andrea L. Berez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she teaches in the Language Documentation and Conservation program. She is also the director of the Kaipulehone Digital Ethnographic Archive. She has been working for over a decade with speakers of Alaska Athabascan languages and since 2012 has been undertaking linguistic fieldwork in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. She is currently co-editing a volume on language contact in the Americas.
Julia C. Bishop is a research associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She studies children’s folklore from historical and contemporary perspectives, and is particularly interested in multimodal approaches to musical play and the relationship between media and play. She is co-author of Changing Play (2014) and has published several recent articles on clapping games in Children, Media, and Playground Cultures (2013) and Children’s Games in the New Media Age (2014).
Belén Bistué is Assistant Researcher in Comparative Literature for CONICET and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. As a doctoral student, she worked in the transcription lab of the Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews archive. Her current research focuses on the history of translation practices during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She is the author of Collaborative Practices and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe (2013).
Ian Brodie is an associate professor of Folklore in the History and Culture department of Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia. His principal research interests are the intersection of folk culture (whether “traditional” or emergent) and popular culture, including vernacular talk, local food, comic books, and street art. His book A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy will be released in 2014 from the University Press of Mississippi.
Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Cultural Heritage in the University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning. She has published widely in Australian social and cultural history, on topics including the history and memorialization of childhood. She has held several government appointments in the fields of education, history, and culture. Recent publications include Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage (2013, with C. Pascoe).
Beverley Diamond is the Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP). Her research on indigenous music has ranged from studies of Inuit drum dance and Saami joik to indigenous audio recording and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools. Her publications include Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges (2012), Native American Music in Eastern North America (2008), and Music and Gender (2000).
David F. Elmer is Professor of the Classics at Harvard University and Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. His research focuses on ancient Greek epic, especially the Homeric poems; the ancient Greek and Roman novels; and the oral epic traditions of the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad (2013), and his articles have appeared in Classical Antiquity, Classical Philology, Transactions of the American Philological Society, the Journal of American Folklore, and Oral Tradition.
Patricia Fumerton is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive, or EBBA (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu). She is author of Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (2006) and Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and...
